The name Linda has been used for eleven
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...
s worldwide.
In the Eastern Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Linda (1985)
The 1985 Pacific hurricane season is the third-most active Pacific hurricane season on record. It officially started on May 15, 1985, in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1985, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1985. These ...
– minimal tropical storm that crossed into the Central Pacific as a tropical depression.
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Hurricane Linda (1991)
The 1991 Pacific hurricane season was a near-average Pacific hurricane season. The worst storm this year was Tropical Storm Ignacio, which killed 23 people in Mexico and injured 40 others. Elsewhere, Hurricane Fefa caused flooding in Hawaii. H ...
– Category 3 hurricane which recurved out to sea.
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Hurricane Linda (1997)
Hurricane Linda was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that was, at the time, the most intense eastern Pacific hurricane on record, until it was surpassed 18 years later by Patricia. Forming from a tropical wave on September 9, 1997, Li ...
– Category 5 hurricane that became the second-most intense hurricane in the Eastern Pacific basin with a minimum pressure of 902 mbar. Also the second strongest hurricane in the Pacific in terms of 1-min sustained winds.
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Hurricane Linda (2003)
The 2003 Pacific hurricane season was the first season to feature no major hurricanes (storms of Category 3 intensity or higher on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale) since 1977. The season officially began on May 15, 2003 in the E ...
– Category 1 hurricane that never affected land.
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Hurricane Linda (2009)
The 2009 Pacific hurricane season was the most active Pacific hurricane season since 1997. The season officially started on May 15 in the East Pacific Ocean, and on June 1 in the Central Pacific; they both ended on November 30. These dates conven ...
– Category 1 hurricane that caused no damages or deaths.
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Hurricane Linda (2015)
Hurricane Linda was a strong tropical cyclone in September 2015 that resulted in heavy rains across portions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The seventeenth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, eleventh hurricane, and eighth ...
– Category 3 hurricane which affected Baja California, bringing heavy rainfall and deadly
flash flooding
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
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Hurricane Linda (2021)
The 2021 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season, with above-average activity in terms of number of named storms, but below-average activity in terms of major hurricanes, as 19 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 2 m ...
– long-lived Category 4 hurricane that stayed out at sea.
In the Australian region:
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (1976) – made landfall south of Darwin, Australia.
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (2004) – persisted out to sea.
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Tropical Cyclone Linda (2018) – never affected land.
In the Western Pacific:
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Tropical Storm Linda (1997)
Severe Tropical Storm Linda, also known as Typhoon Linda, Cyclonic Storm Linda (BOB 08), or in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Openg, and in Vietnam as Typhoon No. 5 of 1997 () was the worst typhoon in southern Vietnam in at least 100 ye ...
– catastrophic system which killed over 3123 people in various parts of Southeast Asia. Considered the worst storm in southern Vietnam is over a century. Also called ''Openg'' in the Philippines, and BOB 08 in the North Indian Ocean.
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